Vehicular movement at Kalindikunj bridge got paralysed on Thursday evening when a bus caught fire on Noida-Delhi stretch. The incident caused traffic snarls on the entire Noida-Delhi stretch and its cascading effect witnessed on other routes also. Scores of motorists, using the road, entered on opposite lane that created traffic snarls on Delhi-Noida road also. Traffic officials took two hours to normalise the traffic on both stretches.
According to traffic officials, snarls created around 8 pm when fire broke out in a private bus due to short circuit. Fire tenders reached the spot immediately and controlled the fire but it took one hour to take the bus away from the road. In the meantime, traffic police blocked the road and thousands of motorists stuck in the jam. Stretch was opened almost after one hour. Just after opening the road, scores of vehicles, trying to overtake each other, caused massive jam.
“As stretch was closed for some time, lots of vehicles had appeared on the road. Although we tried to stop them from using opposite lanes but many bikers entered somehow entered on the road which caused jam on both sides. Now, we have removed it but traffic movement is still slow,” said a senior traffic official.